Software Development Engineer

Position Overview

Are you excited about shaping the future of platform development through cutting-edge technologies and cloud services?

Autodesk is searching for a skilled Platform Development Engineer to join our Platform Services and Emerging Technologies team. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and optimizing our cloud-based platform, with a focus on serverless computing, virtual machines, and container orchestration services in both AWS and Azure environments. If you are passionate about leveraging cloud services to build scalable and resilient platforms while driving innovation and collaboration, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

This role is located in Ireland. Hybrid work model.

Responsibilities

• Build observability solutions using advanced cloud monitoring tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace, Splunk or equivalent, to provide comprehensive insights into system metrics, logs, and traces

• You have good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work with teams to lead observability programs and improvements

• Configure and customize monitoring dashboards, alerts, and metrics to allow real-time visibility into system health, performance, and reliability, facilitating rapid detection and resolution of issues

• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to define observability best practices, ensuring understanding of industry-leading methodologies

• Analyze system performance and behavior through advanced data analytics and visualization techniques, identifying trends, anomalies, and optimization opportunities to enhance system reliability and scalability

• Develop and automate observability-related processes and workflows, using scripting and automation tools to improve monitoring, analysis, and response activities

• Be on-call for incidents and system outages

• Stay up to date with latest trends and innovations in observability and cloud monitoring technologies, evaluating and integrating new tools and methodologies to improve our observability capabilities

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 5 years of experience in platform development or a similar role

• 4+ years of hands-on software development experience in Python, Java, Go, NodeJS, or .NET

• Proficiency in serverless computing services such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions

• Hands-on experience with virtual machine services like AWS EC2 and Azure Virtual Machines

• Familiarity with container orchestration services such as AWS ECS, Azure Container Instances (ACI), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) principles and tools like Terraform and CloudFormation

• Experience designing and implementing scalable, high-performance platform solutions

• Experience implementing unit and integration tests

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Developer

• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect or Azure Developer Associate

• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment and testing

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and ELK Stack

The Ideal Candidate

• You have a strong background in platform development, with expertise in serverless computing, virtual machines, and container orchestration services in both AWS and Azure environments

• You are well-versed in Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) principles and tools

• You thrive in a collaborative environment and are passionate about leveraging cloud services to build scalable and resilient platforms

• You stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in cloud computing and platform development

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About Autodesk
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